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Focuses on the remarks of entertainment personality Bill Cosby at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Brown v. Board Education at Howard University in Washington D. C. Description of Cosby on American basketball players; Comment of the celebrity on the quality of black education; Criticism of media people on the speech of Cosby.

Comments on the Black Radical Congress (BRC) on June 18 to 21, 1998 at the University of Illinois. Views on the academic format of the congress; Apparent weaknesses that help explain the proposed petition drive denouncing United States (US) genocide to the United Nations; Agenda needed by the BRC and other progressives; Highlights from the BRC.

Profiles Richard Wright from the perspective of other writers. Includes excerpts from the `New York Herald Tribune' newspaper; `L'Express' newspaper; `La Nef' magazine.

A literary criticism of the book "Malcolm X In Our Own Image" edited by Joe Wood with contributors including Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, John Edgar Wideman, and Cornel West. It presents essays on African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X. It discusses an understanding of Malcolm X's metamorphosis, his struggle for black liberation, his joining the political religious movement, Nation of Islam, and his autobiography through these essays.

Discusses the effect of racism on affirmative action court decisions in the U. S. Details of the emergence of affirmative action cases in the country; Decision of the Supreme court on the Bakke case; Information on a case filed by the Center for Individual Rights against the University of Michigan; Tactics used by nationalists on affirmative action.